Kadu languages

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Kadu
Tumtum
Kadugli–Krongo
Geographic
distribution:
Nuba Mountains, Sudan
Linguistic classification: Nilo-Saharan?
  • Kadu
Subdivisions:
  • Western
  • Central
  • Eastern
Glottolog: kadu1256[1]

The Kadu languages, also known as Kadugli–Krongo or Tumtum, are a small language family, once included in Kordofanian but since Thilo Schadeberg (1981) widely seen as Nilo-Saharan. However, there is little evidence for either classification, and a conservative classification would treat the Kadu languages as an independent family.[2]

There are three branches:

References

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  2. Gerrit Dimmendaal, 2008. "Language Ecology and Linguistic Diversity on the African Continent", Language and Linguistics Compass 2/5:843ff.

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